Literary notes about compound (AI summary)
The word "compound" is remarkably versatile in literature, serving both technical and figurative functions. In some texts it marks the joining of elements—whether combining subjects, predicates, or clauses to form nuanced sentence structures [1][2][3]—or even fusing words to create descriptive compounds that enrich the language [4][5]. At the same time, it denotes mixtures in scientific and financial contexts, as when authors discuss compound interest [6] or describe compound fractures and chemical compounds in nature [7][8]. Even in mythological or etymological explorations, the term is used to show how complex ideas or names are built from simpler parts [9][10], underscoring its flexibility across multiple realms of discourse.
- A Compound Sentence is one which consists of two or more coordinate simple sentences: as, tū mē amās, ego tē amō , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - The clauses are therefore said to be coördinate ,—that is, of the same “order” or rank, and the sentence is called compound .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - Both of these are compound complex sentences.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - In this construction, which is called the gerundive construction , the substantive and gerundive blend together in sense like the parts of a compound.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - To throw his language more out of prose, Homer seems to have affected the compound epithets.
— from The Iliad by Homer - At the end of ten years they had paid everything, everything, with the rates of usury and the accumulations of the compound interest.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - When the bone pierces or breaks through the skin, it is called a compound fracture, and when it does not, a simple fracture.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - The compound, or compounds, known as "caffetannic acid" are probably the source of catechol, as the proteins are of ammonia, amins, and pyrrols.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Baal Peor was only Pi-Or, the Sun; as Priapus was a compound of Peor-Apis, contracted.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6) by Jacob Bryant - Arsinoë is a compound of arez-ain, Solis fons: and most places so denominated will be found famed for some fountain.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6) by Jacob Bryant
